Gregg Williams says talk that he stole a playbook is “a joke”

Posted by Michael David Smith on February 13, 2014, 1:01 PM EST

Reuters

A couple of weeks ago, former NFL defensive end Renaldo Wynn raised some eyebrows when he said that his former coach Gregg Williams told him that the Titans had the Jaguars’ playbook and used it to prepare to beat the Jaguars in the 1999 AFC Championship Game. Wynn later backtracked on that claim, and now Williams is saying the whole thing is ridiculous.

At his introductory press conference as defensive coordinator of the Rams, Williams said there was nothing to Wynn’s comments.

“That was really a joke story,” Williams said. “That was a joke, to me.”

Williams did say, however, that he compares notes on playbooks from around the league with other coaches, and that he has a large collection of old playbooks.

“I do collect playbooks,” Williams said. “I love to see what other people call a term that you use.”

But Williams said that coaches can glean all the information they need from tape study.

Williams may not have stolen anyone’s playbook, but his suggestion that there would be no benefit from having another team’s playbook seems farfetched. After all, there’s a reason that Williams isn’t going to post the Rams’ defensive playbook on the team’s website.

Lombardi left from the Saints and went to detroit and will basically be installing the Saints playbook….

Doesn’t mean it gives the Lions an advantage.

FB is situational anyway. No guarantee a team is going to use a set of plays when gameday comes so as a Defense you would need to study the ENTIRE playbook leading up to a game on top of knowing the checks@the line of scrimmage AND lets not talk about PERSONEL and what one guy is capable of doing vs another guy in the same scheme.